Cavaliers

The Cavaliers, also known as the Royalists, were the supporters of the House of Stuart during the English Civil War of 1642-1652. The Cavaliers were led by the nobility of England, who benefited from their tax exemptions and government and clerical positions granted to them by King Charles I of England, and the Cavaliers dominated northern and western England. The Cavaliers were later supported by the forces of Scotland and Ireland against the rival Parliamentarians of Oliver Cromwell, and they were defeated in 1652 after the end of the third civil war.